New York Daily News

New York Times

Reuters

Mark Ruffalo Wants Academy
Voters to "Grow a Pair"

The Kids Are All Right won best comedy at the Golden Globes Sunday night, but all female directors -- including Kids director Lisa Cholodenko -- were shut out of the Directors Guild feature film nominations.

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

New York Critics

The NYFCC also did right by "The Kids Are All Right," giving it three wins, the most of any movie this year. The Focus Features comedy took home kudos for actress Annette Bening, supporting actor Mark Ruffalo and screenplay (by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg)...

Variety

Nomination Reaction:
Lisa Cholodenko

Technical difficulties didn't stop helmer Lisa Cholodenko from enjoying the news that came at the crack of dawn informing her of the pic's haul of four Globes noms, including a bid for comedy/musical picture...

Variety

IFC

Entertainment Weekly

OscarWatch: Best Actress

Earlier this week I posted a clip of Natalie Portman from Black Swan, a film that will certainly earn her a Best Actress nomination. The other front-runner in the race this year is obviously Annette Bening for her fierce turn as a red wine-loving mom in The Kids Are All Right...

Yahoo News

Lisa Cholodenko Talks About
Marriage, Casting, and Oscars

Lisa Cholodenko, who made a name for herself with such indie faves as "High Art" and "Laurel Canyon," took a few years off from her career to bear a child with her partner, using an anonymous sperm donor...

Reuters

Indie film group unveils
Gotham award nominees

"The Kids Are All Right" picked up two nominations, best film and ensemble cast, with its comedic tale of two lesbian parents whose children were conceived by artificial insemination and who want a relationship with their father...

MovieWeb.com

HitFix.com

Oscar Watch
Annette Bening vs. Julianne Moore

It's been speculated since January, but "The Kids Are All Right" best actress dilemma has finally come to pass. Awards Campaign can confirm that both Annette Bening and Juliane Moore will both be competing...

HollywoodNews.com

Women are making
progress in the film

HollywoodNews.com: Earlier this year, “Hurt Locker” filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female to win an Oscar as Best Director — in addition to being the first so honored by the Directors Guild of America, and winning numerous other accolades...

MovieLine

Malin Akerman on "The Romantics"

When we all last heard from Malin Åkerman, she was preparing for the hometown premiere of her fiery drama, The Bang Bang Club, in Toronto. But for at least one more weekend, she’s keeping an eye on her darling, The Romantics, as it expands into limited wide release...

Variety

With a fashion-forward cast led by Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel, the potential for stylish marketing tie-ins seemed like a natural fit. It's no wonder then that Four of a Kind, the production shingle and distributor behind last weekend's opener "The Romantics,"...

NY POST

'The Romantics' is the most
stylish movie of the year

It’s the most fashionable movie of the season, and the clothes came straight off the rack from New York area stores, which won’t wallop your wallet. “The Romantics,” starring Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel...

FlyBy | Harvard Life. To Go.

Harvard Students are
Such "Romantics"

New York Times film reviewer Stephen Holden calls “The Romantics,” a movie about Harvard grads convening at a wedding, “a formulaic rom-com with an Ivy League pedigree and a higher than average SAT verbal score...

Limité Magazine

Review: The Romantics

"Our friends got the nickname 'The Romantics' because of our incestuous dating history." In the title scene, Laura sums up the film's "on the surface" synopsis during a rather awkward rehearsal dinner speech...

IndieWire

Box Office: “Romantics”
and “Heartbreaker” Lead Debuts

Two indie romantic comedies led this very busy weekend of debuts at the specialty box office. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, Galt Niederhoffer’s “The Romantics” and Pascal Chaumeil’s “Heartbreaker” found excellent numbers in very limited openings...

Wall Street Journal

Marketing ‘The Romantics’:
A Case Study in Branded Partnerships

To help promote her drama “The Romantics,” writer- director Galt Niederhoffer decided to take matters into her own hands — literally. Out of the Sundance Film Festival, her film was presented with two vastly different distribution offers...

People Magazine

NY Post

'The Romantics' is nice
looking and a good film

Having once dubbed themselves “The Romantics,” an octet of exiles from a tribal nation called Yale have descended upon a country house on the Long Island Sound to unpack ancient flirtations and attend a wedding...

New York Magazine

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise Explain
The Romantics’ Ending, Sort Of

We hope it's not spoiling too much if we tell you that this weekend's The Romantics — in which Katie Holmes, Adam Brody, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin play college friends...

Movieline

The Romantics
Press Conference

Quite the bundle of talent convened in New York this morning to discuss The Romantics, the ensemble dramedy about a group of college friends who gather roughly 10 years after graduation to celebrate a wedding among them. Or maybe not "celebrate"...

MTV

'The Romantics' Trailer
Have Us Excited For September 10

One of the films we have been most excited for out of Sundance was the Katie Holmes and Anna Paquin-starring "The Romantics," which follows seven college friends as they reunite for one of their weddings. After seven months of waiting, we finally have a trailer for the film's wide release...

People Magazine

E! Online

Katie Holmes Gets All Dawson's
Creek-y in The Romantics

First Katie Holmes was afraid of the dark. Now she's afraid of losing the man of her dreams. Fortunately, that's familiar acting territory for her. Making things awkward for her ex (Josh Duhamel and his fiancée (Anna Paquin) in the days leading up to their wedding...

The Associated Press

'Romantics' Clothes Unite Art,
Commerce, Celebs

Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel and Malin Akerman are among the well-dressed stars of upcoming film "The Romantics," which is all about friends reuniting for a wedding with a few wounds still not healed. Here, fashion isn't just playing a supporting role — it's a key marketing partner for the film.

Hollywood News.com

Paramount Pictures back in the
indie biz with "Romantics"?

Screen International reports that Paramount Famous has made its first acquisition of Galt Niederhoffer's Sundance premiere "The Romantics" – an all-star film with Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody...

IndieWIRE

"Kids" & "Despicable" Bookend
Los Angeles Film Festival Lineup

Over 200 features, shorts and music videos are on tap for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, taking place at its new home at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. Focus Features Sundance 2010 feature “The Kids Are All Right” will open the event June 17...

Cinema Blend

IFC

Review: "Meskada,"
murder and manufacturing in a small town

Like many a film that has its premiere at Tribeca, "Meskada" is earnest and unremarkable, with a cast stacked high with semi-known actors, like Nick Stahl as small-town detective Noah Cordin, or Rachel Nichols...

Huffington Post

Tribeca Festival Interview:
Feature Film Meskada

A longtime fan of police drama, Sternfeld wanted to make a feature film that used similar elements, but could bring something new to the classic genre. He turned to American history. He found brutal wars of land and territory...

Cinema Blend

Tribeca Review: "Meskada"

There are plenty of low-budget American indie films that make the most of their limited resources and budget, cleverly executing realism and original plots with cheap cameras and less-than-stellar actors...

MTV

Kellan Lutz, Kim Cattrall,
'Shrek' Top Our Tribeca Must-See List

These days, it feels like every major city - and more than a few minor ones - has its own film festival. But few can approach the credibility, level of quality and star-studded pleasure of the annual Tribeca Film Festival...

Film Filia

The Kids Are All Right
Trailer and Poster

The Kids Are All Right is the heartfelt new comedy from acclaimed director Lisa Cholodenko, starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo. Two teenaged children (Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska...

iTunes Movie Trailers

Movie Line

The Kids Are All Right Trailer:
Annette and Julianne's Modern Family

You may remember that at Sundance this year, Movieline flipped for Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy The Kids are All Right, which stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian parents, Mia Wasikowska and Josh

Variety

Tribeca Unveils Complete Lineup

Stories about real-life people will take center stage at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival as a diverse cast of characters are explored through narrative features and documentaries, from "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" to Billy Joel in "Last Play at Shea" to "Vidal Sassoon The Movie."

Associated Press

indieWIRE

"Kids Are All Right" Wins
Berlin’s Teddy Award

Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids are All Right” took the best feature film prize at Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Awards, handed out the best queer works featured in all sections of the festival...

Herlad Sun, Australia

A US comedy starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple whose kids seek out their sperm donor won the Teddy prize for best gay movie at the Berlin Film Festival, organisers said today...

Gaelick

The Kids Are All Right picks up
Berlinale Teddy Award

Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right has picked up the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the the Berlin film festival, the Berlinale. The award was conferred yesterday as the 12-day mega-festival drew to a close...

On Top Magazine

Lesbian Film Takes
Home Berlinale Gay Prize

The film stars Academy Award nominees Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a lesbian couple whose kids seek out their biological fatherThe Kids Are All Right has won the Teddy Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, also known as Berlinale...

Reuters

Moore, Bening team up in
lesbian family comedy

BERLIN - Julianne Moore and Annette Bening team up in "The Kids Are All Right" in which they play a long-term lesbian couple whose lives are turned upside down when their two teenage children contact their biological father...

Ace Showbiz

Julianne Moore's Kids Are All Right
Premiered at Berlinale

The 60th Berlin International Film Festival has been used by Focus Features to premiere one of their films "The Kids Are All Right." On Wednesday, Feb 17, Julianne Moore has supported the promotional effort by attending the special screening which took place at Festival Palace in Berlin, Germany...

indieWIRE

cinemadaily | Towards Berlin

The 2010 Berlinale begins tomorrow. indieWIRE has the competition lineup which includes Sundance titles like Lisa Cholodenko’s "The Kids Are All Right" and Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me," as well as the world premieres...

IFC

Can Sundance's Hits Fly
Outside Park City?

A late selection at the festival, director Lisa Cholodenko's dramatic comedy about a lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) confronted with their kids' hippy sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo) was an undisputed hit of the festival...

Wall Street Journal

Two Moms and a Hot Movie

The biggest bidding war of this year's Sundance Film Festival focused on a movie about two kids with two mommies and their sperm donor. "The Kids Are All Right," which stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as two mothers raising their teenage children in California, sold to Focus Features...

Women & Hollywood

Can The Kids Are All Right Be
the Female Brokeback?

It’s not news that gay and lesbian films struggle to get out of the niche and be seen as mainstream entertainment and make serious box office dollars. We all know that many films have gay characters, but films that star and are driven by gay people - male or female...

LA Times

Sundance 2010: Kids Are All Right
comes into Focus

In a move that would mark the second significant acquisition of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Focus Features appears to have closed a deal to acquire rights to Lisa Cholodenko's family dramedy "The Kids Are All Right," according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Focus paid $5 mil...

LA TIMES

Sundance 2010: Katie Holmes, newly
dramatic star? (The Romantics)

It's been a long time since Katie Holmes has had a lead film role, let alone a noteworthy one. She last appeared on the big screen as a co-lead in the critically eviscerated "Mad Money" two years ago, and before that had a respectable...

Variety

Sundance Review:
The Kids Are All Right

Parked by wonderfully lived-in performances from Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, "The Kids Are All Right" is alright, if not up to the level of writer-director Lisa Cholodenko's earlier pair of new bohemian dramas, "High Art" and "Laurel Canyon."

DAILY NEWS

Katie Holmes on the career comeback
trail in 'The Romantics' at Sundance

Mrs. Tom Cruise is at the Sundance film festival promoting not one, but two films, according to the Los Angeles TimesShe's been out of the limelight for a few years, but it looks like Katie Holmes is ready to take center stage again...

Filmmaker Magazine

THE ROMANTICS' GALT NIEDERHOFFER

Galt Niederhoffer is no stranger to Sundance, having produced films that won awards there beginning in 1997, when Morgan J. Freeman’s Hurricane Streets won the Audience Award. As a founding member of Plum Pictures, one of New York’s most active independent film production companies...

True Blood net.com

Anna Paquin Film The Romantics
Selected for Sundance Film Festival

Anna Paquin’s upcoming film, The Romantics, seems like good practice for real life! As she thinks about what she might want for her own wedding to True Blood costar and fiance, Stephen Moyer, she portrayed a character preparing for her wedding

People Magazine

Broadway World.com

Focus Features Acquires Rights
to 'The Kids Are All Right'

Following its acclaimed world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Focus Features has acquired domestic and select international rights (the U.K., Germany, and South Africa) to Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right. Focus Features CEO James Schamus made the announcement today...

Tribeca Film.com

Super Shorts: "The Elephant Garden"

Sasie Sealy's beautiful short, which won the Student Visionary Award at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, gets into the head of a lovely young girl who's dealing with the awkwardness of sisterhood and blossoming sexuality.

The New York Sun

Salute Your Shorts: Elephant Garden

The Elephant Garden. Dir. Sasie Sealy, 19 min: This deftly visualized and beautifully performed Southern suburban tweener’s identity crisis is a welcome short-film program rarity: a student movie that holds its own alongside the non-student offerings.

New York Magazine

Short Stuff: Elephant Garden

Director Sasie Sealy atmospheric coming-of-age tale, shot in North Carolina, is a vision of childhood bliss that’s on the verge of vanishing: Eleven-year-old Chloe realizes that her older sister Elisabeth now seems a lot more interested in boys than in her younger sibling...